Clothes-line hanger.



B. J.'LEE, DEGD.

M. A. LEE, ADMINISTRATRIX. GLOTHES LINE HANGER. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 24. 1906.

TMR Nomus PEI-Ins cm, WASHINGYON, n c.

PATENTED APR. 16, 1907.

UNITED STATES PATET DFFICE.

BARTLEY J. LEE, OF POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ALBERT J. RYDER, OF POUGI-IKEEPSIE, NEW YORK; MARGARET A. LEE ADMINISTRATRIX OF SAID BARTLEY J. LEE, DECEASED.

CLOTHES-LINE HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 16, 1907.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BARTLEY J. LEE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Poughkeepsie, New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Line Hangers, of which the following is a specification. Y

My present invention relates to clothesline supports, and more especially to that type of support which, together with a distant pulley, sustains an endless traveling clothes-line, the support being pivotally connected with the window-casing or its equivalent and being adapted to be swung inward to facilitate the placing of the clothes upon the line.

The object of the invention is to provide an extremely simple, economical, durable, and efficient device which may be operated in perfect safety and in which the arm will be automatically locked in either of its extreme positions. I have also aimed to provide means by which, the arm" after it has been swung into the room or the like will be held automatically against being lowered until the clothes-line isin proper position.

With these and other objects in view the invention includes the novel features of con struction hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

An embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of the support as applied to a window-casing and in position to allow the window to be closed and with the line sustained in proper clothes-holding position. Fig. 2 is a similar view with the arm swinging inwardly, and Fig. 3 is a view at right angles to Fig. 1.

Referring by reference characters to the drawings, the numeral 4 designates a window frame or casing, and 5 a bracket secured thereto outside of the path of the upper sash. This carries a boss or bearing 6, upon which is pivotally mounted. an arm 7 The boss 6 carries an eye 8, to which is connected a pulley-block 9, while a second pulley-block 10 is connected to the free end of the arm.

The endless clothes-line 12 is passed through these pulley-blocks and through a pulley-block 11, secured to any stationary segmental brace 14, which travels during the swinging of the arm in a guide formed by an overhanging projection 15 on the bracket or holding-plate 5. A locking-dog 16 is pivoted to the arm 7 near one end of the segment, one end carrying a suitable device for detachably engaging the clothes line-'such, for instance, as a hook 17. The other end of the dog is weighted, so that it tends to hold the hookcarrying end in locking engagement with the lug 15, so that even though pawl 13 be disengaged the arm cannot be moved until the line is in proper position-that is, until thelower section 12 of the line has been placed in the hook 17. When this has been done, the weight of the line will be suflicient to rock the dog 16 to swing the hook-carrying end out of engagement with the .lug 15. The arm may now be lowered into the position shown in Fig. 1 out of the path of the window-sash, in which position it will be held by the gravitypawl 18 engaging the lug 15. A stop 18 is provided for limiting the movement of the pawl 18 and similar stops 16 for limiting the movement of the dog 16.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. In a clothes-line support of the class described, a supporting element, an arm having one end pivoted thereto, line-guid es at opposite ends thereof, a locking-pawl carried by the supporting element for engaging the arm to hold it in a horizontal position, lockingpawl carried by the arm, and a lug on the supporting element adapted to be engaged by said last-named pawl to hold the arm in vertical position, substantially as described.

2. In a clothes-line support of the class described, a supporting element, an arm having one of its ends pivoted thereto, line-guides for arr-endless traveling line carried at opposite ends of said arm, means supported from said arm for detachably engaging the lower portion of said endless line, and locking means for said arm controlled by the engage- I 6. In a clothes-line support of the class dement or disengagement of the line With said scribed, a supporting element, an arm having means, substantially as described.

3. In a clothes-line support of the class del scribed, a supporting element, an arm having one of its ends pivoted thereto, line-guides for an-endless traveling line carried at opposite ends of said arm, a locking-dog pivoted on said arm, a'device for detachably engaging the lower portion of said endless line, carried by said dog, and a stop on the supporting element with which the dog engages When the line is disengaged from said device, substantially as described.

4. In a clothes-line support of the'class de scribed, a supporting element, an arm having one of its ends pivoted thereto, line-guides for an endless line carried at opposite ends of said arm, a segmental portion or member rigidly carried by said arm concentric to the pivot, and a guiding-lug on the supporting element engaging said segmental portion, substantially as described.

5. In a clothes-line support of the class described, a supporting element, an arm having one of its ends pivoted thereto, line-guides for an endless line carried at opposite ends of said arm, a segmental portion or member rigidly carried by said arm concentric to the pivot, and a guiding-lug on the supporting element engaging said segmental portion, and a locking-pawl on the arm for engaging said guiding-lug, substantially as described.

an angularly-extending portion pivoted to said supporting element, lineguides carried at opposite ends of said arm, said arm having a segmental brace concentric to the pivot, a

guiding-lug engaging said segmental brace, a locking-dog pivoted to said brace and adapted to engage the guide-lug, and a line-engaging hook carried by said dog, substantially as described.

7. In a clothes-line support of the class described, a supporting element, having a boss or projection, an arm having one end provided with a bearing-socket turning upon said boss, a pulley-block supported from said boss, a second pulley-block carried by the free end of the arm, locking means for lock-.

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Witnesses:

CoRA S. RYDER,

MAGGIE A. LEE,

ADELBERT HAIGHT. 

